Radical Housewives - Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Price War: Housewives Organize in the Great Depression
2 Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls
3 Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls
4 Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens
5 Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists?
6 "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Julie Guard is Professor of History and Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Zusammenfassung

Radical Housewives is a history of the Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Julie Guard
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.02.2019
• EAN: 9781487502157
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0215-7
• Seiten: 312
• Serien: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender and History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung